MathML

We at Design Science are excited about the 2 new math domains in DITA 1.3. We'll have a booth in the exhibit hall, and will be on hand to talk with you about best practices for your publishing workflow, to answer your questions, and to show you the available tools for authoring, display and accessibility of MathML. If you're not able to make the conference, feel free to contact us directly at any time.

Wikipedia recently changed its default so that not only does most math look better, but is also accessible by default. It used to be that by default, Wikipedia delivered math as PNG images. Here’s an example of what that looks like:

With PNGs, not only does the math not look very nice (wrong size and blurry), it isn’t accessible.

We at Design Science are excited about the 2 new math domains in DITA 1.3. We'll have a booth in the exhibit hall, and will be on hand to talk with you about best practices for your publishing workflow, to answer your questions, and to show you the available tools for authoring, display and accessibility of MathML. If you're not able to make the conference, feel free to contact us directly at any time.

Design Science will be exhibiting and presenting at the LavaCon Conference in New Orleans October 18-21. If you want to learn the proper way to implement math with your content, this is a great opportunity to meet with the experts.

We've blogged about MathML lots of times, so I'm sure I don't need to tell you why MathML is the way math should be written on the Web or why it is so important for accessibility. Instead, let me take this space to write about its history as a standard.

Design Science is now partnering with *instinctools to add math editing and rendering support to their DITAworks product line. Our mutual clients can now work with math their technical documents without having to leave their content management system (CMS). This will allow users to improve productivity in creating, reusing and publishing mathematics in their DITA topics.

Design Science has partnered with BNStar Information Technology, a Chinese company built around technical publishing. BNStar has a great deal of experience with Arbortext XML publishing tools in the airline, manufacturing, automobile, and military industries. BNStar assesses each client's unique needs to create a publishing platform that best fits their business. These unique platforms are used to distribute technical documents that solve training, maintenance, and other information sharing challenges.

Design Science will be exhibiting and presenting at the DITA North America Conference in Chicago, April 20-22. If you want to learn the proper way to implement math with your content, this is a great opportunity to meet with the experts.